Accidental discharge of firearm leads four agencies on manhunt

An emergency notification call that went out to several dozen homes in Milliken on Sunday concerning a gunman turned out to be nothing, police said Monday.

Milliken police and three other police agencies spent about three hours Sunday night looking for someone who apparently shot into a home in the 300 block of S. Grace Ave., Cmdr. Benito Garcia said.

According to Garcia, a resident called 911 at about 9:15 p.m. and reported shots fired into his home. Another witness told police they saw someone with a shotgun headed west out of the area threatening suicide.

Police sent out an emergency notification call to neighbors in a three-block area, asking them to remain in their homes. Platteville and Johnstown police and Weld County Sheriff’s deputies assisted Milliken police in their search of the area.

Garcia said police knocked on doors and looked over video surveillance tapes from the middle school, but could not find anyone and did not find any spent shell casings. Garcia said the original reporting party eventually told police that shots were not fired into his home, but they sounded close.